Total Recall

film by Verhoeven [1990]

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adaptation of novelette by Dick

  • In Philip K. Dick

    …for You Wholesale” (filmed as Total Recall [1990 and 2012]), “Second Variety” (filmed as Screamers [1995]), “The Minority Report” (filmed as Minority Report [2002]), and A Scanner Darkly (1977; film 2006). The Man in the High Castle was loosely adapted as a serial drama (2015–19) that was streamed online by…

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  • In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Total Recall (1990; from the 1966 short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”), Minority Report (2002), Paycheck (2003), and A Scanner Darkly (2006) have all graced blockbuster screens. The complexities of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? inspired Ridley Scott’s

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discussed in biography

  • Paul Verhoeven
    In Paul Verhoeven

    …up with another sci-fi megahit, Total Recall (1990), which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. The erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992), with the lead roles filled by Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, was another box-office hit and contains a notoriously provocative shot…

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Schwarzenegger

Stone

  • Sharon Stone
    In Sharon Stone: Total Recall

    …in the Paul Verhoeven-directed blockbuster Total Recall, playing the wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character. The movie’s box-office success gave Stone her first taste of stardom. To promote the movie, and in hopes of securing the lead role in Verhoeven’s next project, she posed nude for the July 1990 issue of…

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